CURRENT EVENTS
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Working Group Meetings
Every 3rd Wednesday @ 4pm via zoom
please email for more
info: flxlandreconciliation@gmail.com
Meetings are open to the public, but email us first, in case of schedule changes.
Every 3rd Wednesday @ 4pm via zoom
please email for more
info: flxlandreconciliation@gmail.com
Meetings are open to the public, but email us first, in case of schedule changes.
POSTPONED
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Freedom Farmers and the Black Freedom Movement
A Dinner and Community Conversation with author Dr. Monica White Friday, April 17th, 2020 6 PM Greater Ithaca Activities Center (Gymnasium) 301 W Court St, Ithaca, New York 14850 FREE! : RSVP REQUIRED Please fill out this form to join us! Join us in welcoming Monica White, author of "Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement"! After her day of talks at Cornell, we've invited her downtown for a Community Conversation and dinner at GIAC. We'd love to have you! RSVP required. Please use the RSVP link here to register. Co Sponsored by: SIPS Horticulture Cornell Cooperative Extension Engaged Cornell/Office of Engagement Initiatives Center for Transformative Action American Studies Africana Studies Society for the Humanities Cornell Garden-Based Learning Cornell Small Farm Program Department of City and Regional Planning Cornell Farmworker Program Polson Institute Food, Agroecology, Justice and Well-Being Group Community Food Systems Minor Public Service Center Anabel’s Grocery Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems Center for Transformative Action The Dorothy Cotton Institute The FLX Land Access Reparations & Reconciliation Working Group Traditional Center for Indigenous Knowledge & Healing Rocky Acres Community Farm Ithaca Youth Farm Project The Learning Farm Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming |
Community Read and Discussion #2: Freedom Farmers
Southside Community Center 305 S Plain St, Ithaca, New York 14850 Free! All are Welcome! You're invited to join the Community Book Read of Freedom Farmers. In this Read we'll explore agricultural resistance and the Black Freedom Movement through author Monica White's research on Fanny Lou Hamer's Freedom Farms Cooperative. This is the second of two Community Reads in preparation for Monica White's visit in April 17th, 2020. We'll distribute FREEDOM FARMERS books (click here for more info) and discuss what we've read so far and share a meal! Bring a dish to pass and your own eating ware. We still have a few copies to share, get in touch! **Southside Community Center will be hosting and cooking up a storm again** A Pig and A Garden: Fannie Lou Hamer, Agricultural Cooperatives and the Black Freedom Movement
Cornell University, Plant Science Building 233 Learn about the historical narrative of the Black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles and contributions of southern Black farmers and the organizations, and cooperatives, they formed. Whereas existing scholarship generally views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of Black people, Freedom Farmers reveals agriculture as a site of resistance and provides a historical foundation that adds meaning and context to current conversations around the resurgence of food justice & sovereignty movements in urban spaces like Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City and New Orleans. After the seminar, join us for a community dinner and public talk (details below!) |
PAST EVENTS
Community Read Kick Off: Freedom Farmers
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Southside Community Center
305 S Plain St, Ithaca, New York 14850
Our entire community is invited to explore agricultural resistance and the Black Freedom Movement through author Monica White's research on Fanny Lou Hamer's Freedom Farms Cooperative.
This event will kick off a Community Read in preparation for Monica White's visit in April 17th, 2020. We'll distribute books, discuss what we've read so far and share a meal!
Bring a dish to pass and your own eating ware.
We have over 30 copies to share, get in touch!
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Southside Community Center
305 S Plain St, Ithaca, New York 14850
Our entire community is invited to explore agricultural resistance and the Black Freedom Movement through author Monica White's research on Fanny Lou Hamer's Freedom Farms Cooperative.
This event will kick off a Community Read in preparation for Monica White's visit in April 17th, 2020. We'll distribute books, discuss what we've read so far and share a meal!
Bring a dish to pass and your own eating ware.
We have over 30 copies to share, get in touch!
Northeast Farmers of Color
5 Solutions for Land-based Wealth Redistribution
Evening Presentation
Tuesday, October 1st
7-9pm
The Space @ Greenstar
700 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca, NY
$10 Suggested Donation
Northeast Farmers of Color (NEFOC) co-coordinator Stephanie Morningstar is coming to lead an evening presentation on 5 Solutions for Land-based Wealth Redistribution. This will be an evening presentation and talk on different solutions around resource leverage, as a way to keep this work moving in a forward direction. The Northeast Farmers of Color is an alliance of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian farmers making our lives on unceded land in New England.
This is a continuation of conversations started in the community around land access, reconciliation and reparations.
*Childcare will be provided.
5 Solutions for Land-based Wealth Redistribution
Evening Presentation
Tuesday, October 1st
7-9pm
The Space @ Greenstar
700 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca, NY
$10 Suggested Donation
Northeast Farmers of Color (NEFOC) co-coordinator Stephanie Morningstar is coming to lead an evening presentation on 5 Solutions for Land-based Wealth Redistribution. This will be an evening presentation and talk on different solutions around resource leverage, as a way to keep this work moving in a forward direction. The Northeast Farmers of Color is an alliance of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian farmers making our lives on unceded land in New England.
This is a continuation of conversations started in the community around land access, reconciliation and reparations.
*Childcare will be provided.
